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  • Benchmarking company profitability and growth: some measurement issues for small firms in Ireland 

    Hewitt-Dundas, Nola; Roper, Stephen (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)
    International comparisons of productivity, purchasing power and inflation can depend crucially on differences in national statistical procedures. This paper indicates that even in more localised comparisons of small firm ...
  • Does outsourcing increase profitability? 

    Gorg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
    We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. ...
  • Public enterprise in Ireland: a statistical description and analysis 

    Sweeney, Paul (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)
    There is much debate on the role of public enterprises, but little analytical work has been done on the subject in Ireland. Fitzgerald (1961), Bristow (1964/65, 1968, 1969 and 1982), Jacobson (1978), the National Economic ...